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Joe Pirelli doesn't remember much about being attacked on the street in his Near North neighborhood in north suburban Waukegan the night of July 27, but his face bears the testimony — five days after the beating, purple discoloration lingered around his eyes, and separate lines of stitches zigzagged across his forehead.
The mother of a 13-year-old girl told police her daughter had been receiving inappropriate text messages from the suspects.
North Chicago Mayor Leon Rockingham is fighting back on a recent allegation of police brutality by a woman who claims she was battered by a North Chicago police officer on two occasions.
The Lake County Sheriff's Special Investigations Unit wrapped up the six-month investigation nicknamed Operation Log Jam by executing warrants or conducting bust buys at six stores, seizing drugs, weapons and cash, and arresting four people in the operation aimed at the sale of K-2, or synthetic marijuana.
It's easy to get away from Chicago to Waukegan in just an hour, but take the long way instead. Make some quick but unforgettable stops to turn a simple drive into a great time you will always remember. The great part about this getaway is that you can accomplish it on just a tank of gas, and the end result, Waukegan, is always a good time.
Police are looking for a man suspected of robbing his second Waukegan TCF Bank branch this month Wednesday morning in the north suburb.
Authorities have charged three men and a woman with the murder of a man whose body was found in a pond in Barrington nearly a year ago.
Author and Waukegan native Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91.
With four recent high-profile cases, a Waukegan defense lawyer says Lake County has become a hotbed of false convictions.
A north suburban man was charged Friday with the heroin overdose death of a 26-year-old man Wednesday.
Prosecutors in Lake County have lodged charges in two high-profile murder cases, in which other men have been charged or convicted.
If you live in the far north suburbs, you could awaken to a huge flame in the sky Wednesday morning.
A north suburban Waukegan man took a plea deal that kept him out of prison for an incident in which he took a needle and thread to his son's buttocks.
Following the deaths of two people held at the Lake County Jail in Waukegan, a prominent attorney has been brought in to determine if any misconduct was involved.
A Waukegan man has landed in jail after turning a routine eviction into a tense police standoff.
Police issued a $2 million, two-count first-degree murder warrant for Edson Silva, 27, of the 1300 block of Ridgeland Avenue.
A Waukegan man is facing drug and theft charges after police say they caught him running a phony drug rehab home.
Police said the fatal shooting of the 29-year-old victim happened during some kind of an altercation in the parking lot.
A detective in an unmarked squad car honked his horn at a Waukegan man, who in turn decided to give the honking vehicle the "finger."
Police continue to move on citizen tips on drug houses in the city, executing another search warrant this week that adds up to almost half a dozen in the last few months.
An investigation is underway after police shot and killed an armed suspect in far north suburban Waukegan.
The FBI is not going to be checking a DNA profile in a nearly 20-year old Chicago area murder case that reopened last month.
Ex-Waukegan basketball star Jereme Richmond was sentenced to probation for illegally transporting a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun as part of a plea deal accepted Monday.
The Metra Union Pacific North Line ran into some serious snags Friday morning, after some equipment derailed at a train yard in Waukegan.
Waukegan police have re-opened the nearly 20-year-old investigation into the rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker.
